Contact: Kevin Mayhood kevin.mayhood@case.edu 216-368-4442 Case Western Reserve University 3 gene mutations appear to be invasion mechanisms IMAGE: Plasmodium vivax has traditionally infected red blood cells of hosts in the Duffy positive blood group but Duffy negative… Read More ›
Infectious disease
No Antibodies, No Problem
Researchers Identify How Mosquito Immune System Attacks Specific Infections Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have determined a new mechanism by which the mosquitoes’ immune system can respond with specificity to infections with… Read More ›
Detailed How To: The Potential for Respiratory Droplet–Transmissible A/H5N1 Influenza Virus to Evolve in a Mammalian Host
* This is information has been made public, I am leaving the figures out… Science 22 June 2012: Vol. 336 no. 6088 pp. 1541-1547 DOI: 10.1126/science.1222526 Abstract Avian A/H5N1 influenza viruses pose a pandemic threat. As few as five amino… Read More ›
